Tomokazu Ukishiro-Groony Blanket Wear

At Design Interviews

Interview with Tomokazu Ukishiro : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. Tomokazu Ukishiro : Make wearable the blanket products for the winter season .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. Tomokazu Ukishiro : Develop a wearable blanket which could be used easily during the cold winter season.
.Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. Tomokazu Ukishiro : We will change every here some product`s specification in order to make unique the products. .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. Tomokazu Ukishiro : few months .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. Tomokazu Ukishiro : Make wearable the blanket products for the winter season .Frank Scott: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?. Tomokazu Ukishiro : The products are made by another company but we have all the brand right .Frank Scott: What made you design this particular type of work?. Tomokazu Ukishiro : Make wearable the blanket products for the winter season .Frank Scott: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?. Tomokazu Ukishiro : We designd 100% ouself those design .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. Tomokazu Ukishiro : all ages , male and female .Frank Scott: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?. Tomokazu Ukishiro : the products specification and the particular design make thise products unique .Frank Scott: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?. Tomokazu Ukishiro : don`t hev any particular meaning .Frank Scott: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?. Tomokazu Ukishiro : computer software .Frank Scott: What is the most unique aspect of your design?. Tomokazu Ukishiro : wearable blanket, different size, different fabric quality .Frank Scott: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?. Tomokazu Ukishiro : we have specialize designer`s team for the design and a specialize product`s develop group .Frank Scott: What is the role of technology in this particular design?. Tomokazu Ukishiro : the special fabric coating(tanatex) and composition make this products incredible warm during the winter season .Frank Scott: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?. Tomokazu Ukishiro : customer`s age, customer`s claim .Frank Scott: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?. Tomokazu Ukishiro : Try to improve every year with new specification and new design the products are the biggest challenge for us .Frank Scott: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?. Tomokazu Ukishiro : in order to improve the brand value .Frank Scott: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?. Tomokazu Ukishiro : We learn to explaine more details about our products in english, normally we have all those info in Japanese inside our web pages .Frank Scott: Any other things you would like to cover that have not been covered in these questions?. Tomokazu Ukishiro : not in particular .